And if you didn’t know anything about Ferguson’s racial history, you might think the DOJ had succeeded in revealing a pattern of discrimination:

Ferguson, Mo., is a third white, but the crime statistics compiled in the city over the past two years seemed to suggest that only black people were breaking the law. They accounted for 85 percent of traffic stops, 90 percent of tickets and 93 percent of arrests. In cases like jaywalking, which often hinge on police discretion, blacks accounted for 95 percent of all arrests.

The racial disparity in those statistics was so stark that the Justice Department has concluded in a report scheduled for release on Wednesday that there was only one explanation: The Ferguson Police Department was routinely violating the constitutional rights of its black residents.

Just as with “Hands up, Don’t Shoot,” this is a lie. Why? Because the arrest rate of blacks for offenses that don’t “hinge on police discretion,” like violent crimes, also systematically exceeds their proportion of the population. In other words, so far as we can tell with objective statistics, the plain fact is that the color of crime in Ferguson is black.

There are three elements to this story.

Tracking how the population changed in Ferguson over a 40 year period

Understanding how white flight effectively forces police to become a source of revenue

Researching crime rates to see if white police are behaving in a discriminatory manner when it comes to non-“discretional” crimes like murder or robbery.

First, properly to understand crime figures, you have to realize that Ferguson, Missouri is a community devastated by sudden white flight. The city is currently 70 percent black, but this is a very recent development.

This brings us to the second component of the story. The DOJ report claims the Ferguson police have been effectively rebranded as a “collection agency.”

The report on Ferguson found that the city used its courts to increase revenue and used its police department as "a collection agency."

"Patrol assignments and schedules are geared toward aggressive enforcement of Ferguson’s municipal code, with insufficient thought given to whether enforcement strategies promote public safety or unnecessarily undermine community trust and cooperation," the report said. "Officer evaluations and promotions depend to an inordinate degree on 'productivity,' meaning the number of citations issued."

Of course, what the DOJ report leaves unmentioned is why such an approach is needed: the absence of a reliable tax base. And even so, these practices don’t necessary show “racial bias” on the part of the primarily white police force in now 70 percent black Ferguson.

And that brings us to the third element of the story, the actual crime rates. For all the MSM attention given to Ferguson, few supposed journalists have done any reporting other than repeating whatever hashtags were held up by vapid celebrities.

So it was left to me. I called the Ferguson Police Department to obtain the crime reports sorted by race that extended back at least a decade. (Significantly the Justice Department examined only a sample size of the last three years—probably to avoid revealing systematic and long-standing black criminality). I was told by an officer that I was the first journalist to ask for this information.

In other words, black criminality in and around Ferguson is systematic and long-standing. And as the proportion of blacks in Ferguson rose, the absolute amount of crime increased even more dramatically.

These figures make the MSM’s whining about Ferguson’s “racism” not just irrelevant, but offensive. Ferguson was burned out, businesses were destroyed, and the city’s future was ruined because local governments were unable to maintain public order and because the MSM will not to do its job and report the truth about what’s going on.

In the end, the Ferguson Farce and the Department of Justice’s report on the so-called racial discrimination against blacks by the Ferguson Police Department is just another episode in the long-running series of attempts by our rulers to repress the reality of black crime.